"Robert Louis Stevenson State Park Robert Louis Stevenson State Park is a California state park, located in Sonoma, Lake and Napa counties. The park offers a hike to the summit of Mount Saint Helena from which much of the Bay Area can be seen. On clear days it is possible to see the peak of Mount Shasta, distant. The park is named after Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of ""Treasure Island"" and ""Kidnapped"". In 1880, Stevenson and his new wife Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne spent their honeymoon living in a cabin at a played-out mine on the mountain along with Fanny's"
"shot in various locations on the Isle of Man, and distributed by Columbia TriStar and Fries Film Group. The vessel used to portray the Hispaniola was the tall ship Earl of Pembroke. Producer Adrienne Gruben was nominated for the 2001 Independent Spirit Awards. Treasure Island (1999 film) Treasure Island is a 1999 film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. It was written and directed by Peter Rowe and stars Kevin Zegers as Jim Hawkins and Jack Palance as Long John Silver. The narrative diverges from that of the novel in that Captain Smollett convinces Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey to"
"from the novel additionally won Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. In March 2013, Twentieth Century Fox optioned the film rights, and hired screenwriter Drew Goddard to adapt and direct the film. In May 2014, it was reported that Ridley Scott was in negotiations to direct an adaptation that would star Matt Damon as Mark Watney. On September 3, 2014, Jessica Chastain joined the film as Commander Lewis. The ensemble cast also includes Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The film was released on October 2, 2015. On December 5, 2014, the"
"movie legend."" For the 27th Academy Awards the film received nominations for Best Picture (won by ""On the Waterfront""), Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart, losing to Marlon Brando for ""On the Waterfront""), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Tully), Best Screenplay, Best Sound Recording (John P. Livadary), Best Film Editing, and Best Dramatic Score (Max Steiner), but won no awards. Dmytryk was also nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. The Caine Mutiny (film) The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American film. A fictional Navy drama set in the Pacific during World War II, it was directed"
"versus the leader who combines maintenance and task actions in the character of Captain De Vriess. In the novel, the failure of Queeg to accurately identify the necessary combination of maintenance and task actions to suit the particular setting of the fictional Navy ship the U.S.S. ""Caine"" may be seen to lead to his inevitable downfall and the ""mutiny"" of the crew during a particularly life-threatening mission in the midst of a typhoon. This theme was repeated later in a cinematic form more recently in the movie ""Crimson Tide"" which pitted a task action oriented Captain (played by Gene Hackman)"
"essential, remaining himself while stretching, getting older while staying the same age."" Critic Rachel Syme dubbed his recognition and performances while taking on more complex, dramatic roles as ""The McConaissance"". McConaughey also played Cooper, a widowed father and astronaut, alongside Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Mackenzie Foy, and Casey Affleck in Christopher Nolan's science fiction film ""Interstellar"" (2014). After finishing Gus Van Sant's 2015 film ""The Sea of Trees"" with Ken Watanabe, in 2016, McConaughey starred in two films, ""Free State of Jones"" and ""Gold"", and voiced leading characters in two animated films, ""Kubo and the Two Strings"" and"
"The Caine Mutiny (film) The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American film. A fictional Navy drama set in the Pacific during World War II, it was directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer, and stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, and Fred MacMurray. The film is based on ""The Caine Mutiny,"" the 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Herman Wouk. It depicts the events on board a fictitious World War II U.S. Navy minesweeper and a subsequent court-martial for mutiny. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Bogart), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Tully), Best"
"Treasure Island (1999 film) Treasure Island is a 1999 film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. It was written and directed by Peter Rowe and stars Kevin Zegers as Jim Hawkins and Jack Palance as Long John Silver. The narrative diverges from that of the novel in that Captain Smollett convinces Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey to cut Jim, a 13-year old boy, out of his rightful share of the treasure in 1759. and so Jim then teams up with Silver. Smollett, Trelawney and Livesey are killed, and Jim, Silver and Ben Gunn escape with the treasure. The film was"
"Captain Alexander Smollett Captain Alexander Smollett is the captain of the schooner ""Hispaniola"" in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel ""Treasure Island"". He plays an important part in disciplining the main characters on the ship as the story progresses, and helps the protagonists survive against the pirates later on. He first appears to the reader as a strict, bitter man who finds fault with everything and is never satisfied. However, he quickly reveals that not all is well aboard the ship, and his first conversation with Jim Hawkins, Dr. Livesey, and Squire Trelawney foreshadows the eventual mutiny of many of the ""Hispaniola""s"
"was finally called ""The Wrong Box"". A film adaptation, also titled ""The Wrong Box"", was released in 1966, and a musical in 2002. Rudyard Kipling, in a letter to his friend Edmonia Hill (dated September 17, 1889), praised the novel: ""The Wrong Box"" was filmed in 1966 starring Michael Caine. The novel was also adapted as a stage musical in 2002, and a studio cast recording of the show was released in August 2013. The Wrong Box (novel) The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story"
"Captain Flint Captain J. Flint is a fictional 18th-century pirate captain who features in a number of novels, television series, and films. The original character was created by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Flint first appears in the classic adventure yarn ""Treasure Island"", which was first serialised in a children's magazine in 1881, and later published as a novel in 1883. Captain Flint is one of the main characters in the book ""Treasure Island"", created by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883. In Stevenson's book, Flint, whose first name is not given, was the captain of a pirate ship,"
"partner of Andrew Murray, an idealistic Jacobite turned pirate, who is not referenced in Stevenson's original book. Flint gradually becomes the dominant partner. The book describes how Flint secretly buries the treasure which would be recovered a generation later by the protagonists of ""Treasure Island"". John Drake's prequels: ""Flint and Silver"" (2008), ""Pieces of Eight"" (2009), and ""Skull and Bones"" (2010), all heavily feature Captain Flint and give his Christian name as Joseph. Flint is mentioned in the novel ""Peter and Wendy"" by J. M. Barrie, a friend of Stevenson. The first mention is in a passage introducing Captain Hook's"
"nomination. Caine has won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the films ""Hannah and Her Sisters"" (1986) and ""The Cider House Rules"" (1999). More recently Caine has gained a new following through his collaborations with British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan in the Dark Knight Trilogy films, as well as ""Inception"" (2010) and ""Interstellar"" (2014). Note: in ""The Italian Job"" (2001 video game), Caine's voice (as Charlie Croker) was impersonated by Phil Cornwell At his peak, exhibitors voted Michael Caine one of the most popular stars at the box office: Michael Caine filmography Michael Caine is an English actor who has appeared"
"in 1983 and 1992. While the original videotape and laserdisc contained the 87-minute G-rated version, by the early 1990s the studio had restored the original cut with a PG rating, as several Disney-branded releases had already been rated PG by this point, and every release since 1991, including the 2003 DVD release, has been the uncut 96-minute version. Treasure Island (1950 film) Treasure Island is a 1950 live action adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions, adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel. Directed by Byron Haskin, it stars Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins and Robert Newton as Long"
"1964 episode ""The Gentleman from New Orleans"" of NBC's ""Bonanza"", Thomas Jefferson in the 1964 episode ""Plague"" of the anthology series ""The Great Adventure"", Dean Acheson in the 1974 TV movie ""The Missiles of October"", Lafayette C. Baker in the 1977 film ""The Lincoln Conspiracy"", John Muir in the 1979 TV movie ""Guardian of the Wilderness"" (also known as ""Mountain Man""), Henry Luce in the 1983 film ""The Right Stuff"" about the Mercury astronauts, and Admiral Ernest J. King in the 1983 television miniseries ""The Winds of War"" and the 1988 sequel ""War and Remembrance"". Of all the television series"
"Michael Bentine, Sidney James, Rodney Bewes and Dirk Bogarde (in a gag reference to his Doctor series role, Simon Sparrow). Lieutenant Commander Robert Badger is an excellent naval officer with one major problem. He speaks the truth at the most inopportune times that lead him to being transferred from ship, to shore, and then to instruct at Royal Naval College. When his remarks are repeated by one of his students to his father, an anti-military Member of Parliament he has one last chance. He and three problem Midshipmen are sent as exchange officers to the flagship of the United States"
"Robert Redford, and Samuel L. Jackson. In ""Captain America: The Winter Soldier"", Captain America, Black Widow, and Falcon join forces to uncover a conspiracy within S.H.I.E.L.D. while facing a mysterious assassin known as the Winter Soldier. A major influence in ""The Winter Soldier"" was conspiracy fiction from the 1970s such as ""Three Days of the Condor"", with the script also drawing from the Winter Soldier story arc written by Ed Brubaker. The script was written in 2011, with the Russo brothers entering negotiations to direct in June 2012 and casting beginning the following month. Principal photography commenced in April 2013"
"remarked that if they did not like this one, he had better take up another line of work (a line he would give to the character of the editor Jeannie Fry in his 1962 novel ""Youngblood Hawke""). The novel, ""The Caine Mutiny"" (1951), went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. A best-seller, drawing from his wartime experiences aboard minesweepers during World War II, ""The Caine Mutiny"" was adapted by the author into a Broadway play called ""The Caine Mutiny Court Martial"" and, in 1954, Columbia Pictures released a film version with Humphrey Bogart portraying Lt. Commander Philip Francis Queeg, captain"
"for Deschanel's conception. The Robinson Crusoe story has been reimagined so that it's not a wilderness test of survival - it's a stripped down search for values."" Crusoe (film) Crusoe is a 1988 British drama film directed by Caleb Deschanel. It is a variation on the story told in the novel ""Robinson Crusoe"", written by author Daniel Defoe. The film stars Aidan Quinn as Crusoe. Tidewater, Virginia 1808. The story begins at sea with the main protagonist, Crusoe (Aidan Quinn), en route to Africa to retrieve slaves. His ship runs into a powerful storm, and the entire crew perishes except"
"be made available for use in the film. (In the book, the new ship which replaced ""Compass Rose"" was a fictional HMS ""Saltash"". These ships were significantly larger than the Castle-class corvettes, but had been paid off or sold abroad when the film was made. However, in 1954 a recommissioned Royal Canadian Navy River-class frigate was made available to play the fictional HMS ""Rockhampton"" in the John Wayne film ""The Sea Chase"".) In the film, when boarding their new ship, the characters of Ericson and Lockhart remark that neither of them have heard of a castle in Saltash – in"
"Crusoe (film) Crusoe is a 1988 British drama film directed by Caleb Deschanel. It is a variation on the story told in the novel ""Robinson Crusoe"", written by author Daniel Defoe. The film stars Aidan Quinn as Crusoe. Tidewater, Virginia 1808. The story begins at sea with the main protagonist, Crusoe (Aidan Quinn), en route to Africa to retrieve slaves. His ship runs into a powerful storm, and the entire crew perishes except for Crusoe. He eventually makes his way to a tropical island, where he is alone and stranded until he discovers that a dog named Scamp and a"
"October 18, 1988. The play was revived in 2006, again under Heston, and has been revived there twice more (2009, 2012) since his death. The Caine Mutiny The Caine Mutiny is the 1951 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific Theater in World War II. Among its themes, it deals with the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by ship captains. The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during Typhoon Cobra, in December 1944. The court-martial that results provides the dramatic"
"The Caine Mutiny The Caine Mutiny is the 1951 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific Theater in World War II. Among its themes, it deals with the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by ship captains. The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during Typhoon Cobra, in December 1944. The court-martial that results provides the dramatic climax to the plot. The story is told through the eyes of Willis Seward ""Willie"" Keith, an affluent, callow young man, making a poor"
"""Pacific Rim"" (2013). He also directed the gothic romance film ""Crimson Peak"" (2015). As a producer, he worked on the films ""The Orphanage"" (2007), ""Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"" (2010), ""The Hobbit"" film series (2012–14), ""Mama"" (2013), ""The Book of Life"" (2014), and ""Pacific Rim Uprising"" (2018). With Chuck Hogan, he co-authored ""The Strain"" trilogy of novels (2009–2011), later adapted into a comic-book series (2011–15) and a live-action television series (2014–17). With DreamWorks Animation, he created the Netflix animated series """" (2016–18), the first installment of the ""Tales of Arcadia"" trilogy, based on the 2015 novel he co-wrote with"
"Martin Scorsese. He was acclaimed for his performances in the political war thriller ""Blood Diamond"", the neo-noir crime drama ""The Departed"" (both 2006), the espionage thriller ""Body of Lies"" (2008), the drama ""Revolutionary Road"" (2008), the psychological thriller ""Shutter Island"" (2010), the science fiction thriller ""Inception"" (2010), the biographical film ""J. Edgar"" (2011), the western ""Django Unchained"" (2012), and the period drama ""The Great Gatsby"" (2013). DiCaprio's portrayals of Howard Hughes in ""The Aviator"" (2004) and Hugh Glass in ""The Revenant"" (2015) won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. His performance as Jordan Belfort"
"June 1805. Captain Sawyer, commander of the ship of the line HMS ""Renown"" in the Horatio Hornblower novel ""Lieutenant Hornblower"", is based on Captain Pigot, sharing many of the same mannerisms. Sawyer was portrayed by actor David Warner in the A&E miniseries ""Hornblower"" episodes ""Mutiny"" and ""Retribution"". The second novel in the Alexis Carew series, ""Mutineer"", by J. A. Sutherland, takes nearly the entire account of the mutiny, down to the gasket being a source of contention for Midshipman Carew, and puts it in a science fiction setting involving a futuristic HMS ""Hermione"" under the command of a Captain Neals."
"Captain Jat Captain Jat is a fictional sea captain created by English writer William Hope Hodgson. Captain Jat was another attempt to create a recurring character, like Hodgson's Captain Gault. Captain Jat is featured in the stories ""The Island of the Ud"" and ""The Adventure of the Headland"". Captain Jat himself is a tall, lean man, interested primarily in ""treasure and women,"" who takes cabin boy Pibby Tawles into his confidence. In ""The Island of the Ud"" their relationship is described as follows: It is true that the Captain appeared both to like the boy, in his own queer fashion,"
"his divers being killed in the destruction of the ""Goliath"" and the recovery of a gold dragon necklace that will provide the needed provenance of the treasure. The original concept was developed from the story of a Bermuda shipwreck, the ""Constellation"", which sank in 1942, carrying ampules of morphine among other war cargos such as concrete and pharmaceuticals. Two actors from the ""Jaws"" films (which were also based on a novel by Peter Benchley) appeared in this film. Robert Shaw played shark hunter 'Quint' in ""Jaws"" in 1975, while Louis Gossett Jr. would later go on to play SeaWorld park"
"the film also featured Dwayne Johnson and Vanessa Hudgens. Caine reprised his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman sequel, ""The Dark Knight Rises"", which was released in July 2012. He appeared in Christopher Nolan's 2014 science-fiction film, ""Interstellar"" as Dr. Brand. Caine co-starred in """" (2014), by director Matthew Vaughn. He also appeared in the lead role of retired composer Fred Ballinger in the comedy-drama film ""Youth"", for which he received widespread acclaim. In October 2015, Caine read Hans Christian Andersen's ""Little Claus and Big Claus"" for the children's fairytales app GivingTales in aid of UNICEF, together with Sir"
"a Gun"" Directed by Gavin O'Connor, with Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton and Ewan McGregor. 2014 - ""Chef"" Directed by Jon Favreau, with Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara, Scarlett Johansson and Robert Downey Jr. 2013 - ""Gimme Shelter"" Directed by Ron Krauss, with Vanessa Hudgens, Rosario Dawson and Brendan Fraser. 2011 – ""The Lincoln Lawyer"" Based on the novel by Michael Connelly. Directed by Brad Furman, with Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy and Marisa Tomei. 2007 - ""Love in the Time of Cholera"" Based on the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Directed by Mike Newell, with Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno"
"cruise ship full of wealthy Gothamites hostage. Batman must fight his way through the bowels of the ship to confront the mercenary leader and save the passengers. By James Robinson, Dan Brereton, and Tim Bradstreet Batman makes the foolish mistake of blindly confronting a professional mob assassin from Chicago on the latter's home turf, resulting in him suffering multiple wounds and becoming trapped in the slums of the Windy City. A cat-and-mouse game with the assassin ensues, as the Dark Knight struggles, and interacts, with the homeless men and women that populate the slums. By Darren Vincenzo and Luke McDonnell"
"Captain Caution Captain Caution is a 1940 American adventure film directed by Richard Wallace set during the War of 1812. The film stars Victor Mature, Bruce Cabot and Alan Ladd. It was based on the novel of the same name by Kenneth Roberts. Elmer Raguse was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording. Kenneth Roberts' novel was published in 1934 and became a best seller. Film rights were bought by Hal Roach who made the film as part of a five-picture deal he had with United Artists. (The others were ""The Housekeeper's Daughter"", ""One Million Years BC"", ""Of Mice"
"for dozens of major US and UK film and television productions since helping provide the voices of both Scottish and English armies alongside Mel Gibson in ""Braveheart"". His first film role was as 'Harris', Roger Moore's lieutenant in ""North Sea Hijack""; other film roles include William Goldman's ""The Year of the Comet"", the western, ""The Pride of Wade Ellison"", and the short film, ""Locked Up"" by Bugsy Riverbank Steel - winner of Best Foreign Short Film at the Lanzarote Film Festival in 2013. Also ""Fast Girls"", ""The Redistributors"", ""Rule Number Three"" with Nicholas Hoult, ""The Pirates of Penzance"" with Kevin"